The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1934, Page 1

RESIDENT ROO. open inflation. increases of food and other VELT has decreed direct, brutal, His latest gold laws are a blow to the whole toiling pepulation in the United States. They whip up the war frenzy am Ever since he came into office, Roosevelt has forced price the imperialist powers. necessities of life. By means of the N.R.A., food costs have gone up 16 per cent. Prices on other necessities of life have risen from 27 to 250 per Rush Orders for January 20th Special Lenin Issue » \ | | : Vol. XI, No. 15 >_>* New York, N. ¥., under the Act of cent, aims at pauperizing the toili And now with his di ORGANIZE TO BEAT BACK ROOSEVELT’S irect, wholesale infiation, he ing ma The N.R.A, codes hold wages down with a vice-like grip. Inflation shoots foad and other prices upward. The cost of living will skyrocket now faster than e workers must be aroused t offensive. ver. Immediate action by all ‘o smash back this ferocious Fight against the high cost of living. Resist the wholesale slashes in real wages. Demand an im- INFLATION, mediate increase in pay to meet the rapidly soaring prices. Hold meetings in your factories, wherever you work, Pre pare for strike for higher pay. Organize to strike against the slash in your real wages. Fight against the A, F. of L. bureaucrats and the Socialist leaders, who help the Roosevelt regime in this diabolical offensive. Regardless of trade union affiliation, all workers should unite for siruggle: Demand increased relief, jobless insurance. Daily .<QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESD AY, JANUARY 17, 1934 WEATHER: C HUNGER, WAR PROGRAM Rally for the struggle against tions should immediately take the ini \ war. Party units and sec- ve in mobilize the workers to fight against the inflation, hunger and war program of Wall Street. tories. Give leadership to the A. F. of L. Build the revolutionary trade unions. Strengthen the work in the fac- growing opposition in the Lead in building a powerful united front of ali workers against Roosevelt’s program of inflation, hunger and war. AMERICA’S ONL CLASS DAILY N Y WORKING EWSPAPER older (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents JAPAN'S ARMY CHIEFS IN ARMORED TRAIN AT SOVIET LINE Congress Moves ves Quickly to En to Enact Roosevelt’s Message to Inflate | Dollar to ¢ to 60c.-50c. Level o Morgenthau Boasts of Gail bea Law As Weapon In World Trade War Father Conghlin, Backed by Bankers, Praises Inflation Move PRIEST PLAYED UP ae British Ri Riv aries Grow More Bitter By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily. Worker, WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.— Th Roosevelt scheme to devalue | the dollar to increase prices at home and to put American im- perialists into a better position in their fight for trade abroad moved today toward swift enactment by Congress. Many of its sponsors ex- pect to put it through within a week. It was defended before a house com- as a windfall against revolution | America’s prime demagogue, the} Ri Charles E. Coughlin, Pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower of (See page 6.) editorial on inflation on cay the priest who is backed by| powerful industrialists, who has re-| fused to employ union labor, and who for years has been pouring into the radio a fascist-tinted hodge-podge centered on a demand for an infla-; tion jag. While Coughlin was telling the, House Currency Committee, “it’s Roosevelt!” The Senate Banking | “y\ Committee was whipping the program into legislative shape in an exetutive | meeting, held behind closed doors. | | Discussion around the Capital cen- tered on its price boosting possibili- | ties—and not a word about increasing wages to meet them—but some other public officials -made veiled refer- ences to its international significance, something which materially in-j} creases the danger of war. | | No Opposition There is no real opposition to the} plan in Congress. Some cast iron conservatives object to Roosevelt's im-| pounding Federal Reserve Banks’ gold! and giving them 50 to 60-cent dollars| in return—but as yet nobody has come forward to say the same for la- | borers whose buying power will be} sliced. The Republiztans met today and urged deliberate consideration, but no specific objections. In fact, they tried to cover their tracks with the constituents who will be hit by endorsing a program for giving back to World war veterans part of the benefits Roosevelt took away under last year’s economy act. As news dispatches from abroad hinted at reprisals which Great Bri- tain will take against Roosevelt's pro- posal to create a $2,000,000,000 fund for dealing in foreign exchange (a mechanism by which gold can be manipulated to give American im- perialists a price advantage over foreign competitors) Roosevelt's Secre- tary of the Treasury, Henry Morgen- thau, Jr., boasted: “We have as many blue chips as the other fellow.” Great Britain’s “equalization fund,” (Continued on Page 2) 1 AEN A REA EES In the Daily Worker Today Page 2 Washinzton Burean) | NEW YORK.—For two days stock with the pronouncement of Roose- velt’s direct inflation program and government gold control, Stock share prices soared upward $1 to $7 a share, adding hundreds of millions of dollars of value to the rich parasite stock and bond owners. In anticipation of heavier attacks against the workers and rising prices, the stock gamblers were able to reap immediate profits. dustry stocks, The very day that Roosevelt made his announcement, Allied Chemical, United States Steel, General Motors, United Aircraft, American Telegraph and Telephone, General Electric (mainly Morgan & Co. corporations) gained the heaviest increases ranging from $3 to $7 a | Inflation Pushes Up War | Stock, Commodity Prices || Roosevelt Program Hands Millions to Rich Stock Gamblers, War Industries and commodity prices shot upward) The heaviest rises were in war in-j share, By his inflationary program Roose- velt handed every one of the rich stockholders a profit of this amount jon every share they hold, and many |of them hold tens of thousands of | shares of stock. Wheat rose 4 cents a bushel the first | day. Cotton rose $2 a bale, forecasting |a rise in food and clothing prices. Prices of other commodties followed jin their upward swing. The grain ang {cotton price rises do not affect the farmers but make profits for the spec- ulators. When the price of grains and other agricultural products do go up, the rise in. manufactured goods will soar so much more rapidly that the poor and middle farmers will be hit by a lowering of his standard of living like the workers. European Gov'ts Prepare Reprisals on Cheap Dollar Greatly Intensified by Roosevelt Action LONDON, Jan. 16.—President Roosevelt's move to further cheapen the American dollar in the battle for | world markets brought threats of | fierce reprisals against U. S. trade from European governments today. The British Cabinet meeting this afternoon will consider drastic re- prisals against the U. S., including the further cheapening of the pound and the erection of higher barriers against alleged dumping of American goods in Great Britain and its colo- nies. Roosevelt’s action is expected to drive the gold-bloc countries off the gold standard, thereby extending the war for trade advantages through depreciated currency with a sharp in- tensification on all sides of the bitter fight for markets. Reflecting the government's re- prisal plans, the London Express bit- terly attacks Roosevelt's inflation move, di “It hits our export trade. The re- valued dollar demands an answer and the British pound should be a re- valued pound. ... A great world currency war has been by President Roosevelt and he will fight America’s trade battle with £400,000,- 000 of conscripted gold.” ee PARIS, Jan. 16.—President Roose- velt’s currency program evoked mingled anxiety and scepticism in French governmental and financial circles today. Paris papers deny that the Roosevelt program will result in any advantage to U. S. trade on the world market, pointing out that it (Continued on Page 2) Sports, by ho even. Birra ‘Tusemeoyea Convention “se, S. Munbeaver” Strike. Page 4 Letters from Needle Trades Workers. “Party Life” “Dr. Luttinger Advises” “In the Home,” by Helen Luke. Letters Praise “Daily's” Anniver- sary Issue. Page 5 eae a World!” by Michael rentag In; What's On. Page 6. Editorial: “Inflation, Hunger, War.” Nazi Paper Tells of Wide Activi- ties of Communist Party. Foreign News. Currency and Trade War} |g sadn Inflates; Bread Price Rises Ic. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.—React- ing immediately to Roosevelt's in- | flation message, the price of bread | shot up one cent in every section of the city today. $850,000,000 More | Increased ‘Loan Power Continues R.F.C. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 16— A bill to increase the lending power | of the Reconstruction Finance Corpo- ration by $850,000,000 was passed by both houses of Congress today and sent to the President for signature. ‘The bill also empowers the R.F.C. to continue to function until more funds | are voted. The total lending power of the R. of this measure to $3,750,000,000. The new funds which will be obtained by means of this action will be pumped into bankrupt industries and banks to maintain the profits of the mono- polists intact, while millions of un- employed are left without relief. Parkovnik, C.P. Member Is Killed in 3-Story Fall NEW YORK.—Jim Parkovnik, 49, of 310 E. 10th St., was killed when he fell from the third story of Pub- lic School 131, Essex and Houston streets, which is being wrecked. Facts concerning Parkovnik’s death were refused when the Daily Worker reporter requested information at the police station and from officials at the school. Parkovnik was a member of Sec- tion 1 of the Communist Party. He leaves three young children. ‘Congress Gives REC. F.C. was increased by the adoption} Miners Fight Court Decree in Anthracite \Glen Alden, Tied Up,| Seeks Injunction, Miners Picket By DAN SLINGER WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. | 16.—The strike of Anthracite | miners in District One today continues. Despite the tem- porary injunction issued by Judge} Newcomb, reports indicate 20,000 ners on strike, the Penn Coal Com- any, which secured the injunction finds their forces at work smaller today than Monday. Today there | was mass picketing in Nanticoke,/ Kingston and Pittston. Thomas Ma- loney, district president, stated that the tie-up is complete and has called | for the reconvening of the conven-} tion of the Anthracite Union for this Thursday. Monsignor Curran, trying to break the strike, is asking for a truce. The strike of the Glen Alden collieries is so effective that the coal company Hired prepared to go into court, asking for an injunction. Rinaldo Cappelini, state president \of the Anthracite Union, arrested for violation of parole, is to be taken balance of a two-year term. Truck drivers of the American Stores are striking against discrimi- nation. Picketing is very militant. | School teachers in Mayfield continue on strike, demanding back pay. ee WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 16.— The Rank and File Opposition, functioning in both the Anthracite | Union and the U. M. W. A., has issued the following statement call- | ing for unity of the rank and file miners of both unions to make the present strike an effective fight for the economic demands of the miners: “The Rank and File Opposition | support the general strike call of the | miners of District No. 1, but say that the strike must be made a real strike for the conditions of the miners. If this is not done then it will only be a fight between Boylan and Lewis, | and Maloney and Cappelini. The rank and file opposition says that jit the strike is for better conditions that all of the miners will support the strike, but if it is only a strike for the leaders to get jobs and the dues, then thousands of miners will (Continued on Page 2) Auditorium Secured For Washington Nat'l Jobless Convention ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 16.— | Herbert Benjamin, National Or- ganizer of the Unemployed Coun- cils, has secured the Masonic Au- ditorium at Tenth and U. Sts. for the use of the National Convention Against Unemployment, to be held in Washington on Feb. 3, 4, and 5. ‘The banquet halls of the same Masonic building will be used for by the delegates in which to get their meals, Sleeping quarters for 800 of the delegates have already been se- cured, and arrangements are being made to get accommodations for 200 more to take care of the 1,000 delegates who are expected to at- tend the convention. back to the penitentiary to serve the Lr Cuban President rs CARLOS HEVIA 4. Murdered In Cuba As Troops Fire On Crowd Cuban Communist Party Calls for Armed Fight Against Reaction (Special to Daily Worker) HAVANA, Jan. 16.—After selecting Col. Carlos Mendieta as President of Cuba, the “Re- volutionary Junta” faced the active resistance of soldiers and sail- ors and mass action by workers and students and deliberated all day Monday, finally selecting Carlos Hevia, Secretary of Agriculture in the Grau San Martin regime, to succeed President Grau, who resigned Sun- day night, under an agreement with Wall Street's representative, Jeffer- son Caffery, and reactionary elements in the island. Rival Groups in Clash A sharp clash on policy occurred between the “left” elements, led by Guiteras and the right, led by Col. Batista, Cuban Army Chief of Staff, who becomes more Machadist each day. The appointment of Hevia as Pro- visional President solves in no way the present tense situation. He has even less support than Grau, de- pending entirely upon the reaction- ary group in the Cuban army. The bourgeois-landlord opposition groups do not support him. U.S. Demands Mendieta As President Caffery is said to have demanded Mendieta as President, declaring the U, S. Government would accord rec- ognition to no other. It is quite probable that Hevia is a transition candidate sisted to hand over the government to Men- dieta as soon as the mass indigna- tion cools off. The new government begins auspiciously by murdering four and wounding 19 demonstrators in front of the palace when they de- manded that Grau remain. It is re- ported that the Guiteras-controlled police refused to clear the streets, whereupon Col. Batista sent troops, who opened up a murderous machine gun fire on the crowd. Sharp Fighting in Interior Reports from the interior show sharp fighting between the Batista and Guiteras factions, with Batista’s troops disarming the Guiteras-con- trolled police im Santiago, Holguin and other cities. Guiteras is preparing a counier- (Continued on Page 2) | | Torgler Is in Hands of Nazi | Secret P olice in eae nei. Other Defendants Still Held 16.—Ernst Communist BERLIN Torgler, Jan. German leader, was brought to Berlin from Leipzig, and turned over | to the Nazi secret police, the Min- | | ist ry of Propaganda annot Torgler, with the three the verdict wrested from the Leipzi Supreme Court by the world- protest movement. All four defend- jants have been in jail despite their | acquittal. The turning over of Torg- ler to the Nazi secret police means | that Torgler is in great danger of | being murdered, as well as that the | Nazis are preparing to carry out their | threat of putting Torgler on trial | again, this time on charges of high treason. The Nazi threat against the life of Torgler must evoke the greatest storm of mass protests throughout the world. The mass protest move- ment, which forced the Nazi court to recognize the innocence of the four Commurist defendants, must be in- creased ten-fold to force the safe re- lease and departure from Germany of the four heroic Communist defend- ants, Cir ee | (Special to Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 16—The Berlin correspondent of “Izvestia” reports that information received by foreign | journalists from the Ministry of In- ternal Affairs in reply to their in- quiry on the ultimate fate of the three Bulgarian defendants reads the | same as before: “The three Bulgarian Communists remain in prison.” The prison regime also remains un- changed. The three defendants are held in solidary confinement, not per- mitted to receive their relatives nor even to see one\another. The daily exercise in the prison yard continud to be limited to exactly 20 minutes. neues” NEW YORK.—Previous reports by the Daily Worker from Paris declare that Georgi Dimitroff is seriously ill as a@ result of the brutal prison re- gime, the strain of the long Reich- stag trial and the long months of im- prisonment preceding the trial. 10c. Fare or New Taxes in the City Transit Plan Berle Admits 10c. Fare Robs Workers NEW YORK—A. A. Berle, City Chamberlain and LaGuardia contact man with the traction companies, re- fused to say that the LaGuardia ad- ministration would insist on retain- ing the 5-cent fare, in an interview yesterday. While expressing the “hope” that the five-cent fare might be contin- ued,, he indicated that the consoli dation of the subway lines would in- evitably mean a burden on the masses in the form of either addi- tional taxation or the ten-cent fare. It would cost a worker a week’s wages at $30 a, week each year if the ten-cent fare would be imposed, he ‘Lehman’s Budget to | Agents of Tokyo Break | Into C.E.R. Shops, Take Japan’s War Chief | GENERAL ARAKI Continue Wage Cuts for State Employes: 250 Million Dollar State Budget NEW YORK.—Continued salary | reductions of state employes, the sust/nsion of the law providing for regular salary increases and a 10 per cent slash in the required needs for | education were recommended in| Governor Lehman’s message to the Legislature on the budget for 1934-: 35 | yesterday. The total budget which approxi- mates $250,000,000 represents an in- crease of 36 millions over the previ-j ous year, Lehman’s proposal that the 1 per) cent sales tax be abolished is based | on the fact that this revenue has| netted the state comparatively little. Similarly, the proposal to exempt) from the 1 per cent emergency tax those receiving less than $2,500 would | cut off only $14,000,000 in revenue. | Both will be made up by revenues from liquor taxes. The proposal to abolish the 1 per cent emergency tax after 1935 on all incomes will be to the benefit of the rich, who will have their normal in- come taxes materially reduced by the abolition of the emergency tax. Republicans who declare they have the backing of LaGuardia are plan- ning a fight on the proposals of abol- ishing the sales tax and the emer- gency tax exemptions and will press for a 2 per cent sales tax instead, with proportional rebates to the cities. admitted. “There {s no use in unifying unless there is something beneficial in it for the city,” he declared, indicating that revenue from the lines to help pay high interest rates to the bank- ers would be the first consideration. A.F.L. Head Suspends Union When Rank and File Ousts Racketeer Official Court Action Delay Against This Corruption Entrenches Crooked Officials More Firmly in Waiters’ Local No. 1 By A. 8S. PASCUAL NEW YORK.—When International President Flore of the Hotel, Restau- rant and Cafeteria Workers (A. F. of L.) stepped into the picture back in '29, after the rank and file of Waiters Local 1 found Secretary Wil- liam Lehman guilty of selling out a strike, the stage was all set for him. James Restaurant in the Bronx had been called off very mysteriously after Lehman and other union offi- cials had held one of their usual con- ferences with the boss, Lets Cat Out of Bag One of Lehman’s henchmen, dis- appointed and bitter because he did not get the rake-off, let the proper ———annsnsss | The strike of 40 waiters in the St.!cat-out-of-the-bag at a membership meeting. The strike, he declared, had been sold out by the union offi- cials for $2,000. Lehman, who also is one of the In- ternational’s Vice-Presidents, was found guilty by a vote of the entire |membership, and ordered suspended from the union. This action followed oes verdict of guilty handed down by a. labor movement trial at which Louis Waldman, Socialis' (Waldman, incidentally later refused to turn the evidence against Lehman over to the District Attorney.) Flore to stan in. And he did. He removed all powers from every) Workers Terrorized Into Accepting Decision; Forced to Pay Tribute; Secret Agreement official, suspended the charter and sent in two Vice-Presidents of the In- ternational to run the local just as they saw fit. All this was done in the Made With Ch name of Justice, fair play, and s¢-j exploit the workers, and keep them cording to Lehman, however, was one of these Vice-Presidents sent in, Mc Devitt,|sort of Fascist control, the other. Ruthlessly thrusting aside all demo- cratic pretenses, by this Fascist like| *!ded by the Roosevelt N. R. action, Flore exposed the whole cor- F, of L. offictaldom, as s machine to of the A. F. of L. | passive to their thievery. This act back in 1929 illustrates the for which Hearst through his puppet Senator | pat Copeland is preparing the ground A. ad- ‘The workers in the local were ter- Sy Abolr: Serer Sportal Pee racketeering tactics of the A.|rorized into accepting this decision. Conditions among the unemployed i anne none SSS npn SNNNNIN nnn TTT Sn ain Cafeterias waiters were bad before, but now be- came worse. Lehman and Mc Devitt ruled with an iron hand. They insti- tuted a system of Tamany Hall Jobs were given only to their followers. Mo Devitt Cut Up One of these workers revolting | Education “Funds Cut in |¢ rece MilitaristsWhip Up War Frenzy in Magazine Articles “STRESS WAR ON USSR Navy Commander Attacks _U. s. Warship Program (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 16.—A Jana- nese armored train, carrying high Japanese officials, includ- ing the chief of Japanese Mili- tary Communications, entered the border station of Pograni- chnaya, near the Soviet frontier yesterday, where they exam- ined depot, locomotives and sta- \tion dispatching rooms, taking photographs. The armored train went along the Eastern line of the Chinese Eastern Railway, stop- ping at all stations and bridges and photographing engineering works. The Soviet press today pub- lishes a series of new facts on the arbitrary actions of Japa- nese agents against Soviet of- ficials of the railway. Japanese officials are absolutely ignor- ing the railway administration and the persons responsible for the railway, breaking into rail- way shops, making survey of engineering work, etc. Rapeiy ate 3 TOKYO. Jan. 16—Current Japan- |ese magazines are flooded with articles by Japanese militarists predicting and calling for an early attack acrinst the Soviet Union and stressing the inevit- | ability” of war with the United States, Vice Admiral Nobumassa Suet- Sugar, commander-in-chief of the | Japanese Navy, openly attacks the U. S. in the magazine “King,” declaring in part: “To speak frankly a self-sufficient country like the U. S. does not need |to have the greatest navy in the world such as she possesses today. That is nothing but a menace to other na- tions. If America had no such big navy, how much happier the world | would be.” Japanese troops are pushing for- ward in inner Mongolia, extending their control to Dolon Nor and other towns westward from the Manchukuo boundaries. The Japanese advance has aroused excited comment in the Chinese press, which charge the Tokyo government with trying to restore Henry Pu-Yi to the dragon throne in Peiping. . AMSTERDAM, Jan. 16—The Fok- ker plant is developing a huge bomb- ing plane, surpassing all its previous ones in armament and cruising range. Construction already has begun on the first plane, a three-motored mon- oplane to be manned by six men. The Dutch Government is reporting or- dering a large number of the planes, for addition to its air forces in both Europe and the Dutch East Indies, Secret U.S. War Moves To Be Exposed Sat. in Enlarged “Daily” A startling exposure of the secret and gigantic preparations for war by the United States government will be published in Saturday's special enlarged edition of the Daily Worker. The Daily Worker has been able to uncover facts of rapid war mobi'ization never before pub- lished, This exclusive article, writ- ten by James Casey, reveals ye the government is cooperating with the major industries for immediate military mobilization of labor, It will treat with the war movements of naval officers and the mobiliza- tion on a war footing of Wall Street’s fighting forces. alone, against this dastardly injustice (Continued om Page 3) Don’t fail to read this story, Or- der your bundles at once!